Monthly archives: December 2007

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -12.26.07- Soldiers, police and volunteers dug for survivors of landslides that killed as many as 78 people Wednesday in western Indonesia, including dozens who were celebrating the cleanup of a mud-covered home, a rescue official said. Read more

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BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -12.16.07- Northern New England should brace for as much as 18 inches of snow as a winter storm, blamed for three deaths, blows through the Great Lakes states late Sunday. Motorists slid off roads as the storm cut visibility and iced over highways with drifts, sleet and freezing rain. The National Weather Service posted winter storm warnings from Michigan, which could get 14 inches of snow in some areas, to Indiana and all the way to Maine Read more

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OTAY MESA, Calif. -12.21.07- Strong winds are buffeting the region Friday morning. In Otay Mesa doors were ripped off their hinges, fences were flattened and tiles ripped off roofs in what the National Weather Service said could have been a small twister. Read more

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-10.22.07- For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it’s not fiction. The scenes are playing, at the start, in slow motion: The relentless grip of the Arctic Ocean that defied man for centuries is melting away. The sea ice reaches only half as far as it did 50 years ago. In the summer of 2006, it shrank to a record low; this summer the ice pulled back even more, by an area nearly the size of Alaska. Where explorer Robert Peary just 102 years ago saw “a great white disk stretching away apparently infinitely” from Ellesmere Island, there is often nothing now but open water. Glaciers race into the sea from the island of Greenland, beginning an inevitable rise in the oceans. Read more

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In July in southern China, the worst flooding in decades forced the evacuation of some 400,000 people, killing more than 150 more. . . While in Texas, more than a foot of rain fell in less than a day, stranding railroad passengers and forcing rescue crews to save more than 50 people more. . . While England was suffering through its second flood in less than a month, leaving some $4 billion in damages and 350,000 people without drinking water, temperatures in southern Europe soared, topping 107* F. in Hungary more Read more

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-12.8.2007- December 1st marked the first in a series of 3 storms to move over the Pacific Northwest from December 1-3, 2007. With cold arctic air already in place over the region, the first storm produced heavy snow in the mountains and low-land snow throughout western Washington. Around Seattle, up-to 1″ of snow fell while many areas away from Puget Sound received over 4″ of snow. Reported snowfall totals. Read more

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Colombia Flood, 05 December 2007: (from gdacs.org ) – Heavy rains caused by La La Niﾖa, the second rainy season began in mid-September. 852,239 people affected by flooding in 83 municipalities in 23 departments. 400,000 hectares farmland submerged. Bridges damaged. roads closed. “At least 90 people have been killed in floods and landslides and crops on thousands of hectares of land have been destroyed in the country in the aftermath of heavy rain since early October.” November 15 – 60,000 homeless when Magdalena, Cauca, Rancheria, Sogamoso and the San Jorge rivers all overflowed their banks. Read more

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I don�t think New Orleans was much worse than the flooding that is currently inundating western Washington state near Centralia. These pictures were taken just a few days ago, right after the storm. The first two show I-5 at the exit for Centralia and why the freeway south is closed for 20 miles. Read more